Merry Christmas HN. I laugh, learn, and even cry sometimes from this place. The only "social network" that makes me feel at home, despite living far away from its epicenter.
Happy holidays everybody. Take some time to relax and recharge your batteries. Spend time with loved ones and let them know how much you appreciate them. Then, in the next year be ready to go full steam ahead and complete that awesome project or launch that great company of yours. Cheers! Catch you on the flip side!
Merry Christmas folks! Being in tech wouldn't be the same without each and every one of you, whether we agree or not ^_^ I learn a ton from y'all and I'm looking forward to the new year.
Much joy for the next year, and many thanks to everyone for the wonderful links I've read the past months at three am in the morning while feeding or comforting my kids :)
Big up to dang and the crew too, for being the mirrors into our souls we need when our comments are too cranky and mean ... Thanks for keeping the community interesting
I know that the holidays can be a rough time for some people, so I want to send out some love to those who are struggling right now. Hang in there for all of us
People who lost someone, people who are separated from their loved ones, people who are introvert but must act sociable, people who are depressed but must act chipper or else be asked questions, people who are alone but see all other people getting together for parties, people that hate their families but cannot escape the obligatory gathering, people who are poor but feel pressure to give gifts and have a lavish meal.
If you're depressed or something very bad's happened in your life, the contrast of it being a time of celebration and seeing everyone else happy can be especially painful. Kind of like being forced to go to a jubilant party where everyone's singing and dancing the day after your best friend died, for example.
During my first job, my boss introduced me to HN. I doubt I would've found it so soon otherwise, as the only other person that knew about it before I mentioned it is someone I only met this year.
My first boss was a great guy to work with and I'm grateful he told me about it. Even though I learned a lot from him professionally, the impact of that one-time five-minute conversation about the site might have added up to more over the years.
Merry Christmas HN! Let us come together for the day, regardless of our intellectual stances and tribal identities.
Let the Linux nerds break bread with the Mac hipsters. May the Haskell devs write bindings for JS libraries. And the VC dreamers shake the hands of the determined bootstrappers.
I'd like to take this occasion to thank Matt Mireles (mattmireles) for hosting a Thanksgiving gathering a few years ago when I was traveling solo in SF.
It really makes a difference when you're with people on the holiday season. I hope I can pay it forward one day.
Happy Saturnalia! Remember to treat the help well, don't party too hard during the festivities, and respect the trees!
Merry Christmas, happy New Year, and may whichever deity or demiurge you deem worthy of worship shower you and yours with blessings in the days to come!
Came for the comments, stayed for the wonderful community of thinkers that makes this site special. Happy Holidays, gang -- I hope 2020 has great things in store for you and yours.
I’m fairly new to this site, but it’s been eye-opening as a student to learn from professionals and other tech enthusiasts. Hope everyone on HN has had a great decade.
Merry Christmas makers! My wish for HN this year is the ability to redirect to a website rather than to a post, then I have to click it manually (I'm using iPhone)
Happy holiday season to everyone on HN, you are all awesome! Amazing work by dang and sctb too keeping the discussion at such a high level, best wishes for 2020!
In case you were curious what the fuss was all about, here's a short explanation of Christianity.
From the Greek Platonic tradition [1], there was a belief in an ineffable Oneness that is the origin and nature of all things. Allegorically, this was treated as a person, like Zeus, but recognized to be fundamentally transcendental and ineffable pure — the One.
The Logos was the emanation from the One; it was the son of god, so to speak, that crafted all material reality. Logos is typically translated as "word", like "in the beginning was the word", but that minimizes the concept of logos. Importantly, Jesus was understood to be the incarnation of the Logos in human form; "the word made flesh.". [2]
That was the dominant philosophical idea in Christian theology until the year 400, when Pope Theophilus of Alexandria had to deal with rioting monks who demanded an anthropomorphic God. He ended up killing the 10,000 monks who believed in an incorporeal God. [3]
So, enjoy your christmas: the celebration of the day when the logos became incarnate!
